I Loves Me Some Rats, And These Ones Are Super Heroes. Spreading Awareness Of Their Good Work.

I loves me some rats, and these ones are super heroes. Spreading awareness of their good work.

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Jack goes hunting for the land mines, with the help of some furry friends!

First saw these kinds of rats in this comedy travelogue on Netflix, humor is a bit unique but good way to spread knowledge.

Hero Rats

Oh man, when I was a kid there was one just like this in Lewiston, NY. Dad had a P.O. box in town and I looked forward to going to the giant house MickeyD's. Same as you place it had an upper inner balcony level, and I always remember the washrooms deep in the brick basement because each of the stalls were completely walled to either side of the toilet, proper painted brick walls and full doors.

It's called Frontier House and "In September 1973, the manager and chef of Frontier House were rescued in a fire. One dining room was destroyed along with widespread water damage.[6]Two years later the historic hotel of Lewiston's future was handed to William McDonald, who restored the interior and leased it to the McDonald's food chain. McDonald's closed in 2004, and the structure has been vacant ever since. It was acquired by the village of Lewiston in July 2013." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_House_(Lewiston,_New_York)

Apparently it's haunted? The basement always felt unnerving.

There was also one in Montreal that had something to do with Cadillac but the building was just a converted brick storefront type, built in a historical location.

I'd love a trend of fast food chains working to preserve and restore historical landmarks - rather than just plopping down another plastic window modern mess.

So me and my friends were out playing pokemon go and we had to literally stop the car and turn around because we may have found the fanciest McDonald’s I’ve ever seen in my life

A MANSION

And the inside is actually beautiful??????

Like there were live plants and I felt like I was walking into an upscale hotel??

It also had a second fancy entrance???

Not only that but there was like a secret upstairs that’s apparently open usually, but it was too late for us to go up too (I’m deffo gonna go back and check that out because come on)

Like what is she hiding 

But yeah I think I found either the most cursed or fanciest McDonalds in America

Also!

It was a pokestop!

Theatre Tips and Tricks:

Nightvision:

No, not the goggles.

So you're backstage and it's dark and you forgot your flashlight and you KNOW there's scenery and props that you are probably going to run in to, but no matter how hard you stare, you can only see the black void that exists in all technician's souls.

And there's an actual, biological science reason as to why.

It comes down to those little things in the eyeball called rods and cones. Cones are near the center of the retina and are great at picking up colour. Rods are on the edges of the retina and are great at picking up light. Rods are a bit shit at colour, but cones are a bit shit if there isn't a lot of light.

So when you stare -AT- something in low light conditions, you're mostly using the Cones, and they're like "We can't tell what that is because it's too dark so here's a dark blob."

What you want to do is look Above or to the Side of what you want to see. And then gather information with your peripheral vision. This uses the signals from the rods who are like "We'll suck in all the light we can to help you see, but we're not sure what color that is," which is fine.

It's tricky to get used to, because of course we want to look right at where we're going, but next time you're waving your arms blindly in the wings, give it a go.

Also note it takes five to twenty minutes for your eyes to fully adjust to dark conditions, and you can wreck that in a couple seconds by flicking on a light, so keep one eye closed if you have to click on your MagLight to check something and that can help retain your vision in at least one eye.

Hope that helps!

Musings:

The individual words in "Booty Call" and "Butt Dial" are synonyms, and yet together they have -very- different meanings.

To watch, or not.

I'm trying to figure out how to come to terms with wanting to watch a movie because it has several talented, not hugely lucrative actors in it that I very much like; but one very big name actor in it who is a bland overhyped hack who basically plays himself playing a part and can't even learn his damn lines like a professional.

Boycotting it WAS a no brainer but now I keep finding minor characters are talent I enjoy, so I'm not sure which is the lesser of two evils - Ignoring the film and missing out on their performances; or watching it and giving Mr DrunkDumbass another tick on his 'number of views'. In the long run my viewership means nothing, but it's the principal of the thing.

If that's the most important thing for a load-in, then this is the most important thing of a load-out.

One size fits fattest, as usual. I have so many unused dresses.

The most important sign of any concert load-in or movie/tv location shoot.